Wow that is simply amazing work!

Your next project goon?



https://modelexpo-online.com/model-airways-nieuport-28-rickenbacker-1-16-scale

With your fantastic modelling skills would make a great model (half covered - other half open)

So...do it yourself???

Sorry, been away for week. That Nieuport looks amazing, and a half covered one would be superb. I have a balsa glider to construct at some point, so if the bug bites, who knows?

Hi All,
The Pup is finished. Here is a quick shot of it. I have a few completions coming along together so I will get some better shots of the detail when I get my camera gear out. Thanks for following along, and again to RS_Colonel for the gift of the kit. I learnt so much building this and the Pfalz, and will be browsing WNW catalogue when I fancy a break from my usual themes. (I'm addicted to the rigging process, so absorbing.)

Another well done excellent mod el.

Outstanding model, as usual. Looking forward to some more pics, and it's my pleasure to see the kit having done to such capable hands

Superb build Goon, that prop really finishes off! The rigging looks great with that marker application as well. Look forward to you getting the camera out and posing her.

Hi All,
I got some shots of the Pup taken this afternoon. Here are some to show the completed model. As ever, thanks to RSColonel for the gift of this kit and the chance to learn some new skills I've always been a bit 'afraid' of, and to you all for following along and your very generous comments.







Here you can see the split axle method of adding to some 'suspension' to the undercarriage. There would normally be some bungee cord over the top of the axle and under the faired strut below, pulling the wheel down. I stupidly forgot to add these parts and it proved impossible to rectify.













Happy New Year everyone!

Beautiful workmanship! Museum quality.

That rigging detail and the weathering all around...amazing.

Looks really nice.


Wheels

Thanks for the positive comments.

Hi, agree with everyone else what a lovely model this is.
Just one thing that jumped out at me is the very squared off cowling which I have never seen on a Pup before. All references show the usual rounded off front end where yours is very squared off. Any ideas?

Amazing!

Hi Guys,
Thanks for the comments.

I just followed the instructions for the Pup cowling. There are two supplied in the kit, an either or is fitted depending on which example you choose. I can't shed any light on the reasons for the difference I'm afraid. (WNW kits and 'assembly and reference guide' are impeccably researched, so I have no reason to doubt them.)

Gareth

The squared off cowl seems to be specific to those built by Standard motor co. This seems to also be related to the 100hp Gnome Monosoupape in place of the Sopwith, Beardmore and Whitworth built examples which used the 80hp le Rhone engine and the rounded cowl.

Standard built roughly half of the total production, and I haven't to my recollection seen any example of one with a le Rhone (except for the recent rebuild for RNAS Yeovilton, where a le Rhone engine and cowl was used in preference to modifying the airframe to take a radial).

WOW !

http://www.wingnutwings.com/ww/productdetail?productid=30&cat=1
Photos from Wingnut of the Pup.

There is an equivalent page for the RFC pup as well (different kit). http://www.wingnutwings.com/ww/productdetail?productid=28&cat=1

The Standard model appears in both, alongside the leRhone Sopwith/Beardmore 9901a/Whitworth types.